Ayingerbrau Hefe Weizen

Brewed by Samuel Smith
Style: German Hefeweizen
Tadcaster, England

As Samuel Smith Wheat beer. Hazy yellow with thick white head. Much banana and coriander in the aroma. The taste is sweet but spiced up by coriander and ginger.

I am sure I rated it before. This is one of hte best HEfe I have tried and it is not from Germany. Nice cloudy colour. Good foam and excellent sicpy flavour. I am always longing for one.

Aroma i lightly banana, quite a bit of wheat. Taste is light not very carbonated, weak body, though maybe a bit chewy at times.

Keg at The Cheshire Cheese, Fleet Street, London. Hazed, cloudy lemon with keged head. An unfortunate attempt at a Hefe Weizen, there are cloves and a sweet false banana flavour/perfume but it is fairly poor. Cloyng throughout with a mouthcoating spicy mush. Tis a shame and this was the first time I’d managed to find this historic pub open, what a place, even on the Friday evening crush from the City Suits.

Tap. I much prefer the regular Ayinger (you know, the one from germany). This just tasted like a diluted version, soft clove and citrus, a little dull, but it is drinkable.

Tapped - the fizz is steady and insistent. Some like it, others dont. I dont. The toffee flavour is odd, but not nasty. I like a bit of toffee. I liked the toffee. There are other flavours, but they are a bit muddled. This is a drinkable product. Doesn’t taste good quality. Same as all the other Sam Smith’s stuff.

Draught in the Red Lion, Carnaby, London. Cloudy yellow with slim white head. Decent enough stab at a wheat beer. Some banana in the aroma, light bodied, hints of the usual hefeweizen flavours. Quite pleasant on a very hot evening in the capital.

Tasty, slightly peace and lemon flavored. Remember this one better in retrospect, from my pre-RateBeer days. Still pretty wonderful. Had this at Lyceum Tavern, London.